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Tuesday, 10 April 2012

How To Reset Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Browser

If Internet Explorer is your default web browser, or if you are sometimes using the browser on your system, you may come into a situation where the browser is not working properly anymore. It may crash on you for instance, or system settings appear so broken that you cannot fix them by yourself. The latter can happen if your system was compromised by a virus, or if someone used tweaking software to modify Internet Explorer settings.

If you have updated Internet Explorer to a new version on your system, for instance to IE9 on Windows 7, you could try and uninstall Internet Explorer. If you are running the default version, for instance Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, you do not have that option.

Microsoft has created a Fix-It, a small portable program, to reset Internet Explorer settings on Windows systems the script is executed on.

All you need to do is launch the program after you have downloaded it to your system. Follow the instructions until you come to the following screen.

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The Reset Internet Explorer Settings Fix It will automatically reset the following:

Disable Toolbars and add-onsDefault web browser settingsPrivacy settingsSecurity settingsAdvanced optionsTabbed browser settingsPop-up settings

It is furthermore possible to delete personal settings, they include:

Resets home pages, search providers and Accelerators to default settings.Deletes temporary Internet files, history, cookies, web form information, ActiveX Filtering and Tracking Protection data, and passwords.

A click on the reset button runs the process in the background. It should not take longer than twenty seconds before everything has been reset to factory defaults. Keep in mind though that you need to restart Internet Explorer before you see the changes take effect.

If you have selected to delete personal settings as well, you will see the welcome screen when you start Internet Explorer for the first time.

Internet Explorer users can alternatively reset the Internet browser without the Fix-It script. The easiest way to perform this operation is to use Windows-r to bring up the run box on the system, and load inetcpl.cpl from there. This brings up the Internet Properties.

Switch to the Advanced tab and locate the Reset button at the bottom of the page. All Internet Explorer windows need to be closed before you can use the feature. The reset button will display the same reset options as the Fix-It.

Resetting Internet Explorer can be useful in situations where you are experiencing issues that you can manually fix anymore.

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Monday, 9 April 2012

Internet Explorer 10 Preview 5 Released

Included in today’s Windows 8 Consumer Preview release was an updated version of Microsoft’s upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 10. IE10 Platform Preview 5 is available both in the operating system’s Metro interface, and on the desktop version of Windows 8. Both versions share the same core engine that is optimized for HTML5 contents.

The Metro version is bare bones, as Microsoft has blocked the Internet browser from running browser plugins such as Adobe Flash or Java. The desktop version on the other hand supports plugins just like previous versions of the web browser did. Another difference is the tab-less design of the Metro Internet Explorer which can open only one web page at a time.

Windows 8 includes one HTML5 browsing engine that powers both browsing experiences (the Metro style one and desktop one) as well as Metro style applications that use HTML5 and JavaScript. The common HTML5 engine provides consistently fast, safe, and powerful support for Web standards and the Web programming model, for both browser experiences as well as for Metro style applications.

When you run the HTML5 Test you’ll notice that compatibility with the technology has been improved considerably in comparison to Microsoft’s current browser Internet Explorer 9. IE10 manages to score 314 and 6 bonus points in the test, while IE9 only 141 and 5 bonus points. Internet Explorer 10 still takes the back seat in comparison to other browsers, but the gap has been closed almost completely. The number one browser currently is Google Chrome 16 with a score 371 and 15 bonus points.

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Microsoft has released new HTMl5 demonstrations at their IE Test Drive site to see how the browser performs and compares in these tests.

A plugin-free browser will run into issues on websites that use use plugin technologies. Microsoft recommends that these sites use detectors to replace proprietary technologies with technologies that do not require plugins.

To deliver the richest experience, and one experience that scales across different devices, we continue to recommend that developers detect when plug-ins are not available and rely on native browser patterns.

Microsoft plans to release the final version of Internet Explorer 10 with the release of the Windows 8 operating system later this year. The browser has been announced for Windows 8 and Windows 7, but no version of it has been released until now for the current Windows operating system. Webmasters and businesses can test their websites and services only if they install the developer or consumer preview version of Windows 8.

You can read Dean Hachamovitch’s update announcement at the official Internet Explorer Blog.

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Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Is it Time to Dump the Internet and Start Again?

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This week, Google was found out to have been bypassing privacy settings in both Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari web browsers, as Martin reported here. In a statement on their blog, the Corporate Vice-President of IE blogged “IE blocks third-party cookies unless the site presents a P3P Compact Policy Statement indicating how the site will use the cookie and that the site’s use does not include tracking the user. Google’s P3P policy causes Internet Explorer to accept Google’s cookies even though the policy does not state Google’s intent.”

Microsoft are now also looking into reports that Facebook does the same and there are apparently many websites guilt of doing this. It does raise some interesting questions though, the biggest of which is should be dump the Internet as currently exists and start again from scratch?

This has been the subject of some considerable debate with Internet professionals in the last year with many arguing that, with malware and fraud as prevalent as they are, we simply cannot control crime and unprofessional behaviour and protect the privacy and rights of netizens without a radical change. They’re not wrong either as online crimes such as identity theft and credit card fraud are at an all-time-high, the use of the Internet as a weapon, both against governments but also companies and even individuals as a means of blackmail is rampant, and we also have privacy concerns from the likes of Facebook and Google (which when set next to the other problems seem trivial).

So could we actually do it? One of the biggest reasons for not abandoning the current infrastructure and, crucially, the methods used to communicate and distribute data over the Internet is the sheer scale of the problem. The Internet is everywhere and a wholesale upgrade would require millions of web and email servers needing new software, none of which currently exists or has been properly field tested. The cost to the world’s economy would run well into billions of dollars and the roll-out would take many years. For an example of this just look at how long it has taken to get IPv6 off the ground!

Then companies have to be convinced to update their websites and email services to the new standards. This would be even harder as companies worldwide are notoriously bad at putting their hands in their pockets to replace IT systems that currently “work”, and compounded by the fact that it would take to very long to upgrade the worldwide software and hardware infrastructure, that both old and new Internet’s would have to coincide for years, maybe even two decades.

On the plus side, software is software and the underlying hardware wouldn’t change. It would therefore no doubt be possible to engineer web browsers to allow both systems to run side by side so as far as end users know there would be no change or difference, and existing web languages could no doubt be ported to any new system.

The advantages of a new Internet are that security would be much tighter. All traffic would be identifiable which would make it extremely difficult for criminals and malware writers to operate, as the authorities would be able to find them much more easily. On the down side, not only would this have privacy campaigners up in arms, but all those people who live in, shall we say, less democratic countries where Internet freedoms are curtailed, would be equally traceable if they even looked at any material that stood against the state. This at its most extreme could endanger lives, and nobody wants that.

So here we have a problem. We either have to make do with the Internet that we have, and probably stop complaining and grumbling about it, or accept years of painful and difficult change at the end of which we will forego much, if not all, of our anonymity. At the end of the process there too would not be any guarantee that criminals and malware writers wouldn’t find ways to circumvent the traffic logging systems anyway and the billions would have effectively been spent for nothing.

What do you think about the future of the Internet? Do we need a new system or is it simply too late for that? How do you compare protecting your anonymity to tracking and deterring criminals? Why not let us know in the comments below.

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Responses so far:Olly says: February 22, 2012 at 10:20 am

I don’t think the problem is the infrastructure. It’s ignorance.

If you answer the phone and willingly let scamers control your PC because they say it has a virus, then go on to hand over credit card details with no proof of who your giving them to, well… Need I say more.

This kind of thing does happen.

If someone cannot tell the difference between a malicious web page that says you have to scan your pc (as opposed to your real anti-virus app informing you a piece of ad-ware was stopped in it’s tracks) and then willing install software from an unknown source, well….

The solution is in awareness and education. Simple-as.

Don’t just give grandma new first laptop and a 3g Internet dongle for Christmas and assume all will be well…

Replyjazzyjeph says: February 22, 2012 at 10:33 am

I couldn’t find the bit where you explain that Microsoft’s own products act in the same way.

Replyilev says: February 22, 2012 at 10:35 am

There is no need to dump the Internet, but there is a need to dump the users. No one should use a computer/smartphone/tablet.. without a license, which means, users have to pass a test in fundamental usage, basics of security,…..

ReplyRoman ShaRP says: February 22, 2012 at 12:12 pm

They say that they want identify users for some years , but people clearly don’t want it.

Let’s face it: in the Pirate Bay, Megaupload and other similar cases much more netizens sided with *pirates*, than with corporations and law enforcement, looking to stop filesharing *crime*.

Mandatory identifying can be imposed on users only top-down way, there will be protests, because world with mandatory identifying is some sort of dystopia, total control world. And many people will start to design measures to circumvent that identifying.

Openness, copying, filesharing and pirating were the things allowed and helped Internet to spread and go. And people want to do what they want – not just obey the rules and help to stop everything that corporations and authorities consider a crime.

So, I think that people pushing mandatory identifying won’t get much support.

ReplyRoman ShaRP says: February 22, 2012 at 12:20 pm

ilev,
if you are talking about something like ‘driving license’ – would you like to forbid drunk people using the computer too? :) Should we have police searching homes and randomly testing Internet users for alcohol and drugs? :)

I think that your proposal is not real, because it’s invasion in personal space (should I check my family’s license before letting them online?). And more to it, people don’t have to pass license exams for hygiene and human virus control – when the danger of dying from human virus is far higher than from a computer virus.

Replyilev says: February 22, 2012 at 8:15 pm

According to Microsoft the danger of computer viruses is the same as from health viruses. Microsoft wants to disconnect from the Internet any device with a virus and quarantine whole countries too when epidemic computer viruses break.

Yes, you need a license fro using a computer/phone… just like a driving license or a gun license.

ReplyRoman ShaRP says: February 22, 2012 at 9:33 pm

Recently I read a good article by Tim O’Reilly. It was called “Before Solving a Problem, Make Sure You’ve Got the Right Problem”.

Hey, guys, remember 2008? What was the cause of the biggest financial burst since Great Depression, lasting and lasting? Was it lack of identity? I would say – no. Millions lost money, jobs, homes… Were guilty found? Were the guilty prosecuted?

Next season. Sovereign debt crisis. And again – millions losing money, jobs, homes… All are identified. Nobody is to blame, nobody found guilty, nobody prosecuted.

Did you hear about UBS rogue trader case? One guy, identified guy, made loss of over 2 billion dollars.

Did you hear about Olympus board fraud? They gave false numbers for many years. All identified, and they even had audits by famous auditors, identified too.

Read another fine article, “The Global Economy’s Corporate Crime Wave”
by Jeffrey D. Sachs

“Hardly a day passes without a new story of malfeasance. Every Wall Street firm has paid significant fines during the past decade for phony accounting, insider trading, securities fraud, Ponzi schemes, or outright embezzlement by CEOs. A massive insider-trading ring is currently on trial in New York, and has implicated some leading financial-industry figures. And it follows a series of fines paid by America’s biggest investment banks to settle charges of various securities violations.”

Didn’t they have identities? They did.

And what are the largest identity thefts? Those by officials losing their devices (or selling the databases in corrupt contries), those by corporations, failing to protect their databases.

And what are the biggest treats of botnets? Those from millions of PCs with insecure Microsoft OSes.

And after all that those funny gentlemen says that the inability to strictly identify us is so serious problem that we should throw bloody money on rebuilding of the Internet?

Let’s have a good laugh.

And then let’s make them a proposal: first please they fix the losses and crimes in financial and corporate spheres, where they have all the identities they wish, and only after that, when nobody will suffer for corporate greed and recklessness, we may want to hear their talks about how identification helped them waste less money.

Yoav says: February 22, 2012 at 12:47 pm

There is no easy cure for stupidity, gullibility, or criminal behavior. This is the world, whether online or offline, so not much new here.

Perhaps the only thing that is really new is that the potential for freedom is much larger than before, and that is a good thing. We should cherish this, and nurture this, not regulate it out of the system in the name of copyright, dictatorship, or “protecting” the population.

I think we’ll manage just fine without “protection”, thank you very much…

Replypd says: February 22, 2012 at 2:27 pm

Give people a meaningful reason to change and they will, eventually. This is demonstrated by the eventual retirement of old web browsers. It’s not likely possible to stop the internet and start again, it is an entity in itself and whilst strictly speaking it could be shut down country by country, region by region, for upgrades to change it’s infrastructure en masse, it’s just not practical. The last time we tried to do something on this enormous scale in IT it did actually work though: Y2K. Then morons cried that all the worrying – which was required before people would do anything – was a waste because nothing mega-dramatic actually happened! That’s human societies for ya: exponentially more dysfunctional for every person added!

So we solved Y2K but not through a complete shutdown of all IT systems and besides, Y2K was as much an issue for non-connected machines as for networked machines. The internet is all about networking so the task would require a lot of cooperation between various dysfunctional human societies.

On the whole though, are we really that screwed? Has the internet really created new issues for society or just exploded the scale of all existing faults in the world? Can we actually build anything better if essentially the reasons the internet is broken are not mechanical or technical but reflections of the ills that pervade society? Why was the internet so hopelessly insecure in the first place? It was built initially by the military FFS! It should have been secure from day one.

The only way that humans have removed ourselves somewhat from ultimate chaos and anarchy is through constructs never before built on the scale of the internet. Most nation states are broken into manageable sizes and despite the UN and various trading blocs, we still can’t tackle global issues like climate change effectively.

Arguably the way to fix the internet is better regulation and better technology. So far the regulation of the internet has been almost completely separate from any regulation enforced by laws. Thus the W3C can drag it’s arse searching for consensus whilst browser developers are not held responsible for security leaks in their software. Nor are they required to take reasonable measures to ensure user privacy is not abused. Thankfully they do these things anyway but they do them poorly. If they were under the threat of regulation, would this produce tighter code? It’s worth a try.

DNSsec
SPDY
IPv6

All of those will help but until regulation requires that all mail servers reject unauthenticated mail, will we ever see an end to spam? Probably not.

ReplyHoward Pearce says: February 22, 2012 at 3:42 pm

For me the question comes down to how.

The internet has developed amazingly well with basically a spontaneous order. My fear is that those wanting the a design change will turn to the state/government to mandate the change and set up the regulations supposedly needed.

This would be a very big mistake and would no doubt end the internet as we now know it.

ReplyJim says: February 22, 2012 at 4:00 pm

Here’s a truism to consider: You can’t fix “stupid”. I don’t care how advanced and sophisticated your system is, it can be defeated by a loose screw on the keyboard. If we spent all that time and money to implement a new Internet I suspect we would be right back here a few years later discussing another set of similar problems. And besides, we really don’t need the Internet enabling the all the world’s governments to become police states. That’s not a world I want my kids growing up in.

Replykalmly says: February 22, 2012 at 5:10 pm

Hmmmm. So – tell me again, please. Why does everybody want to switch to cloud computing and move all their files to the (dangerous) web?

We are being conditioned to accept lack of privacy – and eventually, government control. You are helping.

ReplyMatias says: February 22, 2012 at 5:56 pm

I also think that what must change is the user, not the internet. An educated used will be much less prone to fall into scams techniques, and that´s not valid just for the virtual world: If there is people who willingly give out personal information to whatever person calls on the telephone, there is no technology in the world that will secure us from that. As Mike said, there will always be ways to bypass any security system, sooner or later, so why don´t we just improve what we have, instead of burning billions of dollars on a new Y2K hype?

ReplyTomF says: February 22, 2012 at 6:10 pm

If you want a secure network than anyone can set up a net within the internet using the current protocols. The internet is just the pipeline. You don’t have to access the Web of the Wild West. You can just check email and whatever else.

ReplyDAtkins says: February 22, 2012 at 6:42 pm

In my opinion we need a method of positively identifying a person on the internet through some government agency (like a drivers licence works now). For most internet usage you don’t need it – but when you need to log into your bank (or when we eventually add internet based voting) you can whip our your internet ID and are good to go.

Then each person can decide how they want to interact with people anonymously. Just like in real life, when selling a pack of gum no one cares who you are, but when you’re renting an apartment suddenly they care very much.

There was an article in the Economist recently (http://www.economist.com/node/21542763) about India’s recent decision to create a biometric database of it’s people to reduce fraud and increase access to financial services. Basically it says that when you cannot prove who you are, you are severely limited in the services you can receive. Who wants to loan money to a guy when you don’t know who he is? With the new database you can prove you are who you say you are, whenever you need to, and these basic services suddenly become available.

The same needs to occur for the internet. When you can tie a login to a verified person, you increase the level of services that are accessible and increase security. Then the only real question becomes, does this site REALLY need to know who I am? Most don’t need to know that – but for those that do there would be a real benefit.

Perhaps more pertinent to this discussion, this should work the other way around. Firefox doesn’t need to know who I am, but if I can validate that X download came from Mozilla with the same method, then security improves dramatically.

I only suggest a government agency because they 1) ave a legitimate need to identify you, 2) can pass laws requiring the acceptance of said validation. Not because they have any experience or a good track record …

ReplyAnon says: February 22, 2012 at 6:52 pm

I’d rather fix it than allowing a new and properly “regulated” internet. Emphasis on “regulated”. At least the current one comes from a time where 1984 was a mere fiction novel.

ReplyMorely the IT Guy says: February 22, 2012 at 7:28 pm

“IE blocks third-party cookies unless the site presents a P3P Compact Policy Statement indicating how the site will use the cookie and that the site’s use does not include tracking the user. Google’s P3P policy causes Internet Explorer to accept Google’s cookies even though the policy does not state Google’s intent.”

So Microsoft failed to implement the most basic if security measures for P3P policy enforcement (i.e., checking to see if the P3P policy actually meets the expressed requirements), and this is somehow Google’s fault?

Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle.

Microsoft has historically failed to grasp the concept of “test your software to make sure it does what you claim it will do before you release it.” This incident merely confirms what everyone has know for decades: Microsoft does not do security, nor privacy. If you want those, use a different OS, or at least a non-Microsoft browser. May I suggest Google Chrome? 8^)

ReplyMorely the IT Guy says: February 22, 2012 at 8:12 pm

@DAtkins “In my opinion we need a method of positively identifying a person on the internet through some government agency (like a drivers licence works now).”

Then, of course, the next step is to make the undesirables wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing.

You were born too late. Try Germany, ca. 1939-1945, you’d fit right in there.

ReplyZero says: February 22, 2012 at 9:04 pm

Chrome sucks! Google will indefinitely track you all over the place. I say shut down google they’re the biggest evil corporation that’s out there!

DOWN WITH GOOGLE!!!!!

CHROME SUCKS!!! It’s practically spyware!

ReplyRobert Palmar says: February 22, 2012 at 9:24 pm

The stated purpose of surrendering privacy and
allowing surveillance for helping law enforcement
is just the latest approach of Hollywood in their zeal
to fight piracy inducing a new bill by the author of SOPA:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/301371/20120220/hr-1981-sopa-lamar-smith-internet-surveillance.htm

ReplyRobert Palmar says: February 22, 2012 at 9:25 pm

“including” not “inducing”

ReplyAlastair Breingan says: February 22, 2012 at 11:39 pm

The simple answer is that we want both privacy and traceability; If each person could set their own privacy and traceability settings for each sort of transaction (both high for internet banking – high and none for messages to wiki leaks) then we have a system that works. It does rely on clever and independent browsers and operating systems (so Firefox not Chrome) and for the businesses to carefully differentiate their services. So a privacy standard that would allow experts to publish recommended settings and users to adopt and amend them as they wish.

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Thursday, 22 March 2012

Google Caught Red-Handed Reaching Into Internet Explorer’s Cookie Jar

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The Wall Street Journal a few days ago described how Google and other advertising companies bypassed a user privacy feature of Apple’s Safari browser to drop “ad-tracking cookies on [..] Safari users”. Safari by default blocks third party cookies, which are often used by advertising companies to track users on the Internet. These cookies are used to track the user on every site the scripts of the advertising company run on, which in the case of Google are a lot of different sites.

Google released a statement shortly afterwards that claimed that the WSJ article was mischaracterizing the company’s intentions.

We used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled. It’s important to stress that these advertising cookies do not collect personal information.
…
Users of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome were not affected. Nor were users of any browser (including Safari) who have opted out of our interest-based advertising program using Google’s Ads Preferences Manager.

Microsoft today describes a similar circumvention in the company’s Internet Explorer browser. IE blocks third party cookies by default, unless the site in question “presents a P3P Compact Policy Statement indicating how the site will use the cookie and that the site’s use does not include tracking the user”.

Google now has created a P3P policy that is causing the browser to accept Google cookies, even though the policy the company submits does not “state Google’s intent”.

P3P policies are included in a site’s HTTP headers which users only see if they use specialized tools. Instead of using a valid statement, Google is sending one that is not a P3P policy. The problem here is that browsers will interpret Google’s policy as an indication that the cookies that will be saved to the user’s system won’t be used for tracking purposes, when in fact they do not verify that at all.

Microsoft has created a tracking protection list that allows Internet Explorer 9 users to protect the browser from Google’s practice.

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Microsoft is now actively investigating options to change the browser’s interpretation of unrecognized tokens.

Given this real-world behavior, we are investigating what additional changes to make to our products. The P3P specification says that browsers should ignore unknown tokens. Privacy advocates involved in the original specification have recently suggested that IE ignore the specification and block cookies with unrecognized tokens. We are actively investigating that course of action.

Google being caught red-handed reaching into the cookie jar twice in a week’s time. What’s your take on this?

Update: Google has posted a statement

Statement: Attributable to Rachel Whetstone, Senior Vice President of Communications and Policy, Google
Microsoft omitted important information from its blog post today.
Microsoft uses a “self-declaration” protocol (known as “P3P”) dating from 2002 under which Microsoft asks websites to represent their privacy practices in machine-readable form. It is well known – including by Microsoft – that it is impractical to comply with Microsoft’s request while providing modern web functionality. We have been open about our approach, as have many other websites.
Today the Microsoft policy is widely non-operational. A 2010 research report indicated that over 11,000 websites were not issuing valid P3P policies as requested by Microsoft.
Here is some more information.
Issue has been around since 2002
For many years, Microsoft’s browser has requested every website to “self-declare” its cookies and privacy policies in machine readable form, using particular “P3P” three-letter policies.
Essentially, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser requests of websites, “Tell us what sort of functionality your cookies provide, and we’ll decide whether to allow them.” This didn’t have a huge impact in 2002 when P3P was introduced (in fact the Wall Street Journal today states that our DoubleClick ad cookies comply with Microsoft’s request), but newer cookie-based features are broken by the Microsoft implementation in IE. These include things like Facebook “Like” buttons, the ability to sign-in to websites using your Google account, and hundreds more modern web services. It is well known that it is impractical to comply with Microsoft’s request while providing this web functionality.
Today the Microsoft policy is widely non-operational.
In 2010 it was reported:
Browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Safari have simpler security settings. Instead of checking a site’s compact policy, these browsers simply let people choose to block all cookies, block only third-party cookies or allow all cookies…..
Thousands of sites don’t use valid P3P policies….
A firm that helps companies implement privacy standards, TRUSTe, confirmed in 2010 that most of the websites it certifies were not using valid P3P policies as requested by Microsoft:
Despite having been around for over a decade, P3P adoption has not taken off. It’s worth noting again that less than 12 percent of the more than 3,000 websites TRUSTe certifies have a P3P compact policy. The reality is that consumers don’t, by and large, use the P3P framework to make decisions about personal information disclosure.
A 2010 research paper by Carnegie Mellon found that 11,176 of 33,139 websites were not issuing valid P3P policies as requested by Microsoft.
In the research paper, among the websites that were most frequently providing different code to that requested by Microsoft: Microsoft’s own live.com and msn.com websites.
Microsoft support website
The 2010 research paper “discovered that Microsoft’s support website recommends the use of invalid CPs (codes) as a work-around for a problem in IE.” This recommendation was a major reason that many of the 11,176 websites provided different code to the one requested by Microsoft.
Google’s provided a link that explained our practice.
Microsoft could change this today
As others are noting today, this has been well known for years.
Privacy researcher Lauren Weinstein states: “In any case, Microsoft’s posting today, given what was already long known about IE and P3P deficiences in these regards, seems disingenuous at best, and certainly is not helping to move the ball usefully forward regarding these complex issues.”
Chris Soghoian, a privacy researcher, points out: “Instead of fixing P3P loophole in IE that FB & Amazon exploited ……MS did nothing. Now they complain after Google uses it.”
Even the Wall Street Journal says: “It involves a problem that has been known about for some time by Microsoft and privacy researchers….”

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Responses so far:Robert Palmar says: February 21, 2012 at 12:37 am

Google is shown to have lied and to be deliberately deceptive.
Not exactly meeting their self-proclaimed core value of “Do No Evil”.

ReplyDee says: February 21, 2012 at 12:52 am

In IE9, if you go to Tools > Manage Add-ons > Tracking Protection, enable “Your Personalized List” (with automatically block selected), would this automatically stop websites from doing this as well?

ReplyMartin Brinkmann says: February 21, 2012 at 1:06 am

Good question, I do not know.

ReplyEuroScept1C says: February 21, 2012 at 9:33 am

@Dee, I think not, ain’t enough… Go for example on YouTube’s Homepage only with your personal automated list enabled… The icon in adress bar which indicates if something has been blocked, doesn’t appear…. If you install this new list or ‘EasyPrivacy’, then it works… So, I assume you need to install an additional list…

ReplyDee says: February 21, 2012 at 10:26 am

True, good point.

Morely the IT Guy says: February 21, 2012 at 1:29 am

I guess it’s a matter of interpretation. I would interpret this as “Microsoft fails to implement security in Internet Explorer (again).”

Anyone browsing any Internet site (e.g., not intranet) not owned by Microsoft and using IE is risking major problems anyhow. I’d say Google did them a favor.

Replyódio says: February 21, 2012 at 2:23 am

martin, we got it!!! finally!!

just go to youtube history videos… and hit the “pause viewing history”…

and you see what i was talking about….

ReplyPaul(us) says: February 21, 2012 at 3:59 am

Main question is a legally question. Why does the international law court in Den Haag the Netherlands and the American law court nothing up to now? Is this maybe because Google is a big billion rotating turnover business?

ReplyQ says: February 21, 2012 at 4:01 am

I would not have expeccted anything less from Google.

Replyvasa1 says: February 21, 2012 at 4:10 am

“Microsoft has created a tracking protection list that allows Internet Explorer 9 users to ***protect*** the browser from Google’s practice.”

I guess that’s how Microsoft rates its own Smart Screen so highly … by blocking Google and claiming to protect the browser. It makes business sense for Microsoft and Apple to try to dent Google’s earnings anyway they can. The uproar about privacy is just another game.

ReplyReX says: February 21, 2012 at 4:13 am

So, IE’s non-standard implementation of a standard (no surprise here) that should just ignore invalid header values instead of allowing them is now Google’s fault. That makes sense.

ReplyNeal says: February 21, 2012 at 4:18 am

Google is shown to have lied and to be deliberately deceptive.

ReplyEuroScept1C says: February 21, 2012 at 9:19 am

I’m really impressed MS has as ‘recommended’ lists those of Easylist’s and Fanboy’s along with this new one… They pushed back some sneaky lists like ‘eTrust’ etc…

If IE10 x64 had a better, more reliable with better usuability anti-tracking system ( which can work generally as an Ad-block too ), I’d totally consider to go back to IE…

ReplyDee says: February 21, 2012 at 10:33 am

Hopefully they will also introduce a built-in spell checker with IE10 too. Obviously, there’s the IEspell add-on, but in this day ‘n’ age every browser should have it as standard.

ReplyMartin Brinkmann says: February 21, 2012 at 10:46 am

As far as I know, there will be a spell checker in IE10

Allen says: February 21, 2012 at 10:44 am

is that IE is going to come in new version?

ReplyMartin Brinkmann says: February 21, 2012 at 10:45 am

Microsoft will release Internet Explorer 10 with Windows 8.

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Sunday, 18 March 2012

Internet casinos In case you Just like Twenty-one.

Actual gambling houses present Black-jack participants with various sets of principles as well as distinct bonus deals. Can on-line gambling establishments compete with actual on line casinos in respect associated with sport range? Typically, every on-line gambling establishment features Twenty-one featuring its groups of guidelines. As an example, casinos using Microgaming along with Cryptologic software program provide people around ten distinct variations of regulations. Nonetheless, a number of on-line on line casinos offer you a variety of unique video games depending on Black Jack guidelines. You'll find intriguing for you to get familiar and check out these video games, furthermore the main advantages of gambling houses in comparison to them are extremely vulnerable.

Increase direct exposure Blackjack
Increase publicity Black-jack can be found in Microgaming and RTG software on-line on line casinos. In this form of Black Jack equally cards of your vendor are usually dealt deal with compensate this specific advantage of the player, the dealer is victorious almost all neckties except for Black Jack. All of those other video game depending on the rules of Twenty-one, along with versions may possibly appear in admiration in the amount of chips, permutations able to twice, and many others.
The advantage of gambling houses with all the standard regulations on this video game is about 2.7%.

Pontoon
Pontoon can be found in Cryptologic and also RTG software on-line on line casinos. Not like ordinary Black Jack you features far more the possiblility to double as well as the principle of five credit cards with twice paying out works out, conversely, your seller's credit cards tend to be dealt out face-down as a result indefiniteness goes up along with ties aren't within the give preference to in the dealer. More descriptive rules with the game will be the right after: The game is actually played with bunch regarding Fifty-two charge cards, the particular minimal worth of credit cards comes to within Black Jack. The particular pecking order regarding combos could be the pursuing:
1. Pontoon boat (exactly like Blackjack);
Only two. Several charge cards mix (five charge cards without having bust line);
3. Mix of cards composed of only Twenty one items, the actual nearer to 21 years of age the higher
Several. Breast (over 21 years of age points);
The casino dealer deals 2 cards address the ball player as well as cards to themself facedown along with pontoon examine. The overall game of the seller is equivalent to his video game throughout Twenty-one: they must extend to 18 and also stick to A few charge cards or older 07 (apart from smooth Seventeen).
The gamer offers more chances: chips are left which allows to a single re-split. An possibilities develops pertaining to increasing along with just about any volume of credit cards, as well, the gamer can easily still acquire even with doubling. Contrary to Twenty-one you should buy a credit card (increase) with for around 15 factors.
Like Black Jack following taking credit cards you along with seller evaluate hands. When the participant provides additional cards, he loses the game instantly. Pontoon boat as well as Five charge cards mix in the case of gain is paid Two:1, some other earning mixtures tend to be paid 1:A single. In case of a connect the dealership wins. There isn't any insurance plan as well as by-bets.
Using the sport depending on optimum method which is less difficult than that of Blackjack. The total benefit of on-line casinos will be 0.17%.

Carribbean Twenty one
Carribbean 21 years old is indeed considerably available just inside RTG computer software on-line gambling houses. The is enjoyed a single load up associated with playing cards, not like Twenty-one:
One. _ design is definitely some point;
Two. The combination of an _ design and a couple 10 points credit cards is known as Caribbean 21 and is also paid Three or more:Only two towards the player for your main bet (although not for your dual wagers);
3. The player can easily increase on virtually any playing cards as often as he desires right after doubling you'll be able to buy repeatedly;
Four. You can easily break up just about any a pair of cards;
Five. The ball player may give throughout at any time concurrently losing the particular half of obtainable table bets;
6. The dealership wins almost all jewelry;
Several. In the beginning the casino dealer offers themself just one minute card face-up;
8. In the event the supplier posseses an open up star, the gamer can have Carribbean 21 years old insurance policy, the insurance plan pays Being unfaithful:One particular
With the video game depending on optimum strategy good thing about on-line casinos isn't greater than Zero.2%.

Spanish language Twenty one
The spanish language 21 years of age is indeed significantly obtainable merely throughout RTG software on-line gambling houses.
The game is actually played with six-eight "Spanish" packages associated with playing cards, 10 are taken off any load up (only 10s, queens, ports and nobleman remain). As the significantly less level of 10s in a very group is prefer the casino dealer, the gamer has got the pursuing additional bonuses:
One particular. 21 years of age in the gamer usually is the winner, in addition to Black Jack in the gamer beats Twenty-one in the dealer;
Two. The gamer could twice along with many credit cards;
Three. You can easily increase and get right after split regarding bullets;
Some. The player can give inside soon after doubling;
Five. 5-cards 21s are compensated Three or more:2;
Six. 6-cards 21s are compensated Three or more:One particular;
Seven. 6-7-8 as well as 7-7-7 different fits tend to be paid out Three:2, of the same suits are compensated Only two:One particular and scoops are generally paid for 3:1;
Using the game depending on best method benefit of on-line casinos is not greater than 0.4%.

Super Enjoyable Twenty one
Super Enjoyable 21 years of age could only be located within RTG and also Microgaming software program on-line gambling houses. The game features a range of optimistic differences through standard Blackjack in favour of the gamer, to compensate that gambling houses pay out Twenty-one to the participant A single:A single. The real difference is the following:
A single. The gamer may separate for you to 4x;
Only two. You'll be able to dual along with a variety of credit cards, including after divided;
Several. After split associated with aces you'll be able to split, acquire and increase these people;
Four. The ball player may give inside anytime in the online game to get a 50 % of the wager (which include after divided);
Your five. 20 as well as much less items in the person together with Six playing cards get automatically in case there were no splits;
Six. 21 years old items with 5 credit cards are generally compensated Only two:One in case there were absolutely no divides;
Seven. Twenty-one often benefits;
7. Twenty-one regarding gemstones pays 2:One particular (all the rest are generally paid for One particular:A single)
With the online game according to these regulations the main benefit of on-line casinos is just not over 0.75%.

Black-jack Move
Twenty-one Swap will come in PlayTech application on-line gambling establishments
Contrary to the common Blackjack you tends to make a couple of similar table bets anf the husband becomes at the same time two palms, the seller will get a couple of regular charge cards. The gamer can change higher charge cards involving palms (for instance in a side we've Half a dozen, 12 as well as in the other hand we have 10 as well as Your five. Many of us adjust host to 15 along with 5 and we get instead of a couple of undesirable palms 2 good hands: Six,5 and Ten,12). Principle rules are the same as inside regular Blackjack: there is certainly doubling in two playing cards, one particular divided in fact it is possible to double following divided. To make up the modification good thing about the gamer the dealership provides the following bonus deals:
A single. The casino dealer will not make Black Jack verify;
A couple of. Black-jack with the gamer pays A single:One;
Three. In the event the seller records 22, it is regarded as a new tie against any kind of not really dismissed hands in the player, except for Blackjack;
The fundamental means of the action is quite complex, nonetheless, in the event the participant uses these rules, this individual decreases the main benefit of on-line gambling houses for you to 2.05%.

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Sunday, 26 February 2012

Manage And Play Internet Radio In Google Chrome

I have made the full switch to listening exclusively to Internet Radio stations many years ago. The core reasons? Accessibility while working on the PC, less ads and talking while songs are playing, and better recording possibilities (see our StreamWriter review for an excellent program that can be used for that purpose.

I usually use desktop media players like AIMP3 to listen to Internet Radio stations, as it is a lot more comfortable than having to keep a streaming page open all the time in the web browser. That’s especially true if you have to restart the browser every now and then.

Radio Player Live is an excellent Chrome extension that offers a great radio listening experience for Chrome users. First time users need to add at least one station to the extension before they start accessing the selected stations via the extension’s Chrome address bar button.

radio player live

This is done on the extension’s page. A click on Add radio stations lists all the available options. Users can add a station from the gallery listing maintained by the extension developers, add stations from popular sites such as the Shoutcast directory or Digitally Imported, or add stations manually.

radio stations

All stations from the gallery can be added with a single click of the mouse button. They list many terrestrial stations, like RTL and RTL2, Virgin Radio, BBC 1 to BBC 6 or .977.

Third party stations lead to websites from where the stations need to be added. The extension adds buttons next to each station on those sites which can be used to add the selected radio station to the extension.

internet radio stations

A click on the Radio Player Live button loads an overlay prompt to add the selected station to the radio player. The station’s name, website, logo and category can be customized here.

add radio station

The station can then be selected via the extension’s button in the Chrome interface. Stations can be sorted into categories for easier identification. You can do that when you add a station, or later on under Manage my stations in the program options.

Users who do not like the theme can modify it extensively in the options. From background and header text colors to borders, category names and srollbars. Nearly every visual aspect can be modified.

The player window itself displays a list of radio stations, the currently playing station, the volume, and pause and stop options. You can switch to another radio station with a click.

The program supports VLC and Windows Media Player plugins, but I was not able to get those to work in the Chrome browser. It is not clear from the description whether they are used to play the radio stations in the browser, or if the music is redirected to the desktop player from where they are then played.

Google Chrome users who like to listen to Internet radio while surfing should take a closer look at Radio Player Live.

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